sackarias

I have a function called "filePrompt", which prompts a user for a file name. I'm passing to it an ifstream called fin, and a string called fileName to obviously store the file name, both are being passed by reference.

The error I'm getting is : error C2664: 'filePrompt' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'class std::basic_fstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >' to 'class std::basic_ifstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &'

It's pointing to where I'm calling the function which is simply filePrompt(fin, fileName);

Anyone got an idea of what subtle things I'm missing to fix this up so I can keep trucking on with this project?

sackarias

Got it.

I was declaring in the function prototypes my infile stream of type "ifstream", when it should be "fstream"....